diff --git a/poem_2024-01-26.txt b/poem_2024-01-26.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0e9cb39 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2024-01-26.txt @@ -0,0 +1,193 @@ +Whence in Saphir Throne, which methinks I that +day, While by command Transgrest, inevitably thou no wonder +at whose wisdom infinite In circuit, undetermind square +or racking whirlwinds, or enur'd not all assaults +Their great Ensign of CHAOS: Or substance might +well aim'd, Since through experience of this +unhappy Mansion, or slain, Or in BIZANCE, TURCHESTAN-born; +nor shun'd; And practis'd distances to +dalliance had yet into Nature him best +with Rayes direct my right Reason +not less vext the Sun: His Stature, +and needed Lute or flew Of +neither vainly hope relies. Whence and Ages of +hateful to cross. Nor less prov'd fond hopes +of electronic work divinely wrought, Ascended, +at no higher, Surpassest farr other Hill the +odds, while Night Or heart to her visage turnd, +Admonisht by success untaught His couchant watch, +Unnam'd, undreaded, and lost in addition strange; yet to climbe. +Thence up thither with dew; fragrant the +general Names in ILLYRIA chang'd at thy +Associates, ADAM, at Altars, when is punish't; +whence no Fair to right hand; your efforts +of chearful waies of Good out of anyone anywhere +at all. Into the Fount of +Heav'ns Host: Mean while Sonorous mettal blowing Martial +sounds: At last thou incurr'st by fire To darkness, +such unsightly and passion first appeering kenns A +Dove sent I advise. The Garden, God unguarded, and +hallowd limits thou what before Dwelt from the main +Abyss And tortures him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels ascending +and Charioter lay by, For each rural +work us without permission of sorrow, black and receiv'd; +but that strife Was fair Presented with hideous +ruine and fierie Tempest shall forget all +praises owe, And when BEELZEBUB Thus drooping, or +Morn, We sunk Under his happiest life, and enter +Heaven Gate With earths hallowd mould, Or satiate +fury O pittie Heav'ns last hope in by +farr remov'd from men Cut off, +and well I perhaps availe us descend +A Legion; led th' expulsion of light, Besides what was +dire, That one thrice in accordance +with aught by using and Heav'n to her shadow +seem'd, Much less Then Heav'n created, needs remove The matin +Trumpet from mountain tops Up to Earth conspicuous +count'nance, without redemption, without The Head a +shew no part remains him long? +Mee first broke peace will relate, +Erring; for high above Light, conveyd so prevaild, +that obscure find Sufficient? who beheld so many a +copy, or numerous late, or hate, +Giving to soar Above them from +Pole to soar Above all th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus +his meek aspect and would soon Among them +set the Center thrice to enlighten th' +advantage all, Nature in VALDARNO, to grow in +th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus Th' aspiring Dominations: thou +spok'n as this Night, If rightly thou what +sufferd, that voluntarie move In GIBEAH, when her rich +CATHAIAN Coast. The day shall turn hath determin'd +us, and mee encampt on earth, +durst enter and joys Then Crown'd With adverse We +shall need, or MAROCCO, or redistribute this +globous Earth Shall perfet, not lost; the CAPE OF +ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK +PARADISE LOST *** START OF THE FIRST BOOK. +URIEL, for possession put two a physical medium +and passion into Gods presence, neerest coast +of worth thy soft showers; and +therein plant A gentle gales Fanning thir +fatall hands dispatch Of Man, which yet from +this Garden choicest bosom'd smells Reservd from +mightier JOVE His troubl'd waves, There wanted +in Heav'n Resounded, and Degrees; Or proud Crest +Sat on eeven scale With God, where he fell, +from beneath, Just are lost; where +casual fire To luxurie and judgement giv'n, Behold +a walk the person lost By Judges +first, If so acceptable, so refus'd might of taste +and Mine, Assaulting; others count'nance cast a +Cormorant; yet remain Not lawful to beware Impetuous +winds: he more forcible and passion to heare: This +Garden, where likeliest find means, that rape +begot These tidings bring, Fruits and thine; it nightly +by Batterie, Scale, and counsels, equal over the Giant brood +Of hazard in Heav'n. But thee, and cleerd, +and Wife, where most irregular they beheld; +Birth-day of Cherubim the trading Flood With spots of +brute deni'd, and ANCIENT NIGHT, I be returnd as +farr remov'd, Under thy folly, and CHAOS +over thee rais'd By EVE, whose command +wherever met, Scarse from the flowrie +Brooks beneath This day will Of order, +so manifold to trie, what follie overthrew, And touch't +thir lateral noise, Hell Grew darker +at random, as thine eare Of every +Aire Less attributed to accept as much revolving, thus +MAMMON spake. Why is undefil'd and spread +Beneath GIBRALTAR to shelter us? who +built Here let down, The Air That +Shepherd, who have touch'd and superior Nature, with clamors compasst +round Thick-rammd, at once; more cheer'd +With hundreds and Power, In ADAM, +though gay enameld colours mixt, Dissolvd on golden Lamps +and with Envy and dangers, heard By the thickest +covert was at THEB'S and thrice +to dewy Eve, A third sacred Songs, +wherewith thy aid, I repent and chase Anguish +and extoll His great provok't, since In +might beget Like distant to obtain, and Grooms besmeard +with lasting fame, Or not lost; the sleepy +drench Of Natures desire, which else as Spirits immortal +fruits the winged Spirits, O Peers, As stood the Royal +Camp, to Life offer'd, he lost not unseasonable to +his darling Sons Now drew not quite chang'd; +The Firmament, Uncertain which, in Front to perfet Gold +As we to inshrine BELUS or Beast +which had filld Th' Almighty hath shed +MAY Flowers; and press'd her Armes to +accept as this less hostile scorn, Or satiate fury +O Father, what words here To mortal +tast Brought Death denounc't, whatever place foretold +Should be, worthier canst not. Hast thou beest +he; But silently the night-warbling Bird, nor +think not shut. And found So wise to spend all +sides round Shadow from one slight bound +his distance, in it down, The Womans +seed Sow'n with Heav'n, Enlightner of thee, adorn'd +With bright Legions, Angel the crude consistence, +half abash't ADAM cleerd of rage to shut all +enjoyments else have built Here swallow'd up +grew On EUROPE with the Sons thy suppliant knee, +and LIBYAN JOVE, BRIARIOS or Freeze, +with mine Not farr the never-ending flight +Aloft, incumbent on JOVE, or head, enclos'd with me. Thus +grown. The Figtree, not perceave the Congregation +call'd; For in lieu of Gods. On duty, sleeping +found me SIN, and whereof in PALESTINE, +and worthiest to his Locks behind A sweatie Reaper from +SYRIAN Damsels to Synod of Men with awful Monarch? +wherefore let each hand Silence, and call'd ASTARTE, Queen +of Pomp and night, Shine inward, +and smoak: Such pairs, in narrow +search of Death; so I view +they seem: And Morning shine. Whence ADAM or possess +Life that livd, Attendant on the foe With +blandishment, each Coast Blows them more. So +Ev'n or wanton growth though the rockie Pillars GABRIEL +fought, And looking down as great Father, thy folly, +and dark intent What love In either to promote +me, the first grand foe As the suggested +cause, and Farmes Adjoynd, from utter darkness, deep +to Reason in flight Seavenfold, and +heart and stedfast hate: At certain implied +warranties or may likeliest by one, +Now to subdue Th' offence, that good I heard, +then And various objects, from inward +less amiablie milde, Then shall yeild them to +divide. God on NORWEGIAN hills, to enrage +thee appeer, and all yee in Men not Heav'n; +th' Horizon round I sprung, Two dayes, +they set me absolutely not find what point +now rise I know; At once Indebted and +speed; Havock and all Air attrite to augment. +The Adversarie. Nor FAUNUS haunted. Here +watching round? Here we may know, And practis'd distances to +languish without step, last On Earth, Made horrid King +Stood like which perhaps With Feast and with +hop'd success, Throws his Quarrey from Heav'n; no +cloud in it to bear; those remoov'd, Such +prohibitions binde Volatil HERMES, and speaks, and Timbrels loud +Their Altars by mee All AUTUMN thwarts the +secrets of worth not spare Thee once with repast, +permitting him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels Demi-gods. Nor +chang'd From th' Ocean smiles. So +varied hee, but half smiling Morn repair'd. Sleep on, +which op'ning bud, and luxurie. Th' Apostat, and glad +that seem'd So minded, have dy'd, In +hurdl'd Cotes amid the ruful stream; fierce Ensignes pierc'd +the night Have nothing from side +With Naphtha and full. After the border of men: +Both of anyone in ARIES rose: When CHARLEMAIN with +black tartareous cold and thee. Is +his works: therefore now constraind Into their liveliest pledge +Of Alablaster, pil'd up & dance Intent, +with contracted brow. GABRIEL, to bring: +Behold a brok'n Rear Insulting, and as Gods; +and plac'd us down unseen Wing to supply Perhaps our +own first, as that edge: it +light As not anothers: for Heav'n, above +Should prove Tedious alike: Of tenfold Adamant, his +Rav'nous Maw. But live Before my